The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-23

| fire insurance organizations of Western
| New York, the Masonic, A. o. u. W.
Empire Order of Mutual Aid. North
western Masonic of Chicago and
Royal Templars of Temperance. All
have paid death claims except the A j.
on. w. in March last. William B. Sir
rett IA prominent citizen of Buffalo. trav-
| cling in California recognized Crandall
on the streets of Los Angeles. On his.
STREET. S, statement being published the
| insurance organizations at once started
| an investigation. Secret circulars were
sent to all Masonic and a. 0. u. W.
Lodges or the Pacific Slope. By this
means he was located. Crandall was
there last night. His Identification is
said to be complete to the scar on the
foot. An Indictment has been found
and requisition Will be at once taken
out and officers sent to Oregon to bring
Crandall to Buffalo. In the meantime
he viii be held at Salem as a fugitive
from justice.
COLORED MURDERER HANGED.
AUGUSTA, June I7.-Fred Morgan
was hanged at Louisville, this state,
to-day, for the murder of his mistress,
Emma Lewis. Both were coIored. Nor
gan first shot and then disemboweled
her.
THE SHARP TRIAL.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE Sharp
trial was continued this morning with
Thomas ). Brown on the witness stand.
Brown testified: II know Alderman
Fullgraff and was book keeper for Reed
q Cormack in January and February,
1885. February 5th [ received SO 900
from Fullgraff.''
Several other witnesses were exam
ined without eliciting anything inter
esting. Then came a sensation all the
way from Albany. Sharp's counsel
fought against it as irrelevant, coun-
sci for the state having made known
its tenor, but the Court decided to adj
NIT it on the ground that though not
directly connected with the charge on
trial, that of the bribery of Fullgraff,
it was competent to show Sharp's
methods. The witness ON the stand
was William Z. Pottle, engrossing
clerk in the Assembly in 1888. His
best recollection of the General Rail
road bill that year was that it passed
Assembly with the Broadway and
Fifth Avenue Road in, and came back
from the SenateSwithOUt it. While the
bill was in his possession as engross-
ing clerk, witness continued, he was
told that Sharp wanted to see him. He
went to Sharp's room i'll the Della
ware House and found him alone.
did you have any conversation
with him, and did he ask you
as to whether the bill did
or did not include Broadway?' asked
Nicoll. Yes, Sir" was the answer
state all he said on the subject ''He
said he had some words he wanted in
serted in the bill. l think the words
were The Broadway and Fifth Avenue
Railroad He said if l would insert
the words he would go down stairs and
deposit 5000 with Clerk Baldwin.
When l refused, he said, We'll, you
don't seem to take that proposition very
kindly, and 1 will make you another.
If you go bring me the original copy of
the bill l will give you $1,000 1 told
told him could not entertain his prop
ositiOn." Mr.. POttle was cross-eXam-
amined by Stickney. When asked why
as an officer of the Legislature he eX-
posed such an attempt at bribery, he
said he was subpRnaed in Washington,
came on here reluctantly, as he
didn't want to be mixed up in the thing.